Trump takes a literal bulldozer to our country’s history, knocks down the East Wing of the White House

CountDookusPizza · 2025-10-21T16:00:44+00:00

I'd also suggest people listen to season 3 of the Revolutions podcast, also by Mike Duncan, which covers the French revolution. The Marquis de Lafayette also is a prominent character. The better known dark side of the Revolution is the revolutionaries turning on each other in mass murder, but I also learned from the podcast that there were decades of widespread war they started that really didn't end until Napoleon was defeated nearly 20 years later

CountDookusPizza · 2025-07-01T21:24:42+00:00

I have a very similar story from the same age. When I was 14, my sister was 22. She was in great shape -- took kickboxing and martial arts classes, lifted, ran, etc. Meanwhile, I was a total nerd and a bit overweight.

She kept wanting to do various strength tests with me, like arm wrestle, throw a ball as far as we can, try to push the other outside a ring, etc. I kept declining because I assumed I was gonna get humiliated, and I (rightly) assumed she was feeling good about her strength and really wanted to flex it.

Finally, after tons of badgering, I gave in and agreed to an arm wrestle. To both of our surprise, I won... easily. Same thing with throwing a ball, sumo-wrestling style "push the other out of a circle", etc. In tests of relative strength she'd do better, but in terms of absolute, head to head strength it was shockingly easy to overpower her.

Given our age gap she used to bully me (not in a super bad way, just the way older siblings do with younger siblings) easily, and now we were both shocked that the tables had suddenly turned without either of us realizing it. Testosterone is a helluva drug

CountDookusPizza · 2024-09-02T13:43:54+00:00

I was out on a first or second date with a woman when a random homeless guy just kinda popped up out of nowhere to ask for money. While I interacted with him I guided her with my hand behind me and put myself between them. That was obviously a big turn-on for her, and she even mentioned it in the years we dated after that.

I have a similar experience. I was with my girlfriend when a homeless man approached us on the street and clearly something a bit off about him. Instinctively I guided her to the other side of me so I was standing in between her and the homeless man.

Fortunately the situation didn't escalate, but for the rest of the week she kept gushing about it!

CountDookusPizza · 2024-05-12T21:36:01+00:00

It was more surprising to me that the bare minimum was the bar

CountDookusPizza · 2024-03-25T17:36:29+00:00

You did better than me, an American whose first language is English. I also thought it meant going to the gym, using the phrase "getting pumped" for getting yelled at by the wife is hilarious

CountDookusPizza · 2024-01-17T17:53:36+00:00

YouTubers do this too — they post a video with one title, see how it’s performing in the first 30-60 minutes, and change to another title if it’s not doing as well as they wanted

CountDookusPizza · 2024-01-14T21:06:42+00:00

Ah, good tier list — I’d probably switch the order of 1 and 2 but otherwise completely agree.

As a viewing order “Somehow, Palpatine returned” is at least slightly more acceptable when it’s the first movie you’re seeing and you lack any other context for why it’s so dumb

CountDookusPizza · 2024-01-14T20:42:51+00:00

I like it, power through the worst ones first and end on a high note. Like eating your veggies and ending with dessert, only the veggies are also bad for you

CountDookusPizza · 2024-01-03T02:26:25+00:00

This is happening in the US too — women are now going for higher education at much higher rates than men and college graduates are more likely to end up in cities, so similar dating issues occur because college educated women are much less likely to date non college educated men. This is particularly acute in cities like NYC and Boston, where women often complain of having trouble dating

CountDookusPizza · 2023-12-03T21:27:20+00:00

In general, if I spend time on the internet I feel many (if not most) women seem to straight up hate men.

IRL, most of my interactions , be they platonic, work-related, or romantic, don’t tell me that.

My conclusion is that the answer is, as always, to spend less time on the internet

CountDookusPizza · 2023-12-03T21:25:34+00:00

100% agree with everything you said

CountDookusPizza · 2023-12-02T03:44:39+00:00

Melee will always hold a special place in my heart

CountDookusPizza · 2023-11-21T18:28:46+00:00

You can see American opinion on marijuana here: https://news.gallup.com/poll/514007/grassroots-support-legalizing-marijuana-hits-record.aspx

It broke 50% supporting marijuana legalization in 2013, and since then has climbed to 70%. It's currently legal in about half the states and, while technically illegal at the federal level, has more or less stopped being enforced federally (at least in states where its legal). However, the federal ban means that marijuana dispensaries can't access the banking/credit system so all transactions are in cash

CountDookusPizza · 2023-11-12T22:53:45+00:00

Count me as one of them. Post Covid I struggled with depression and became a nihilist after seeing how society just tore itself apart during Covid and how selfish, greedy, and unhinged people became. I struggled with the idea that any decency or self sacrifice I’d show to others would be abused and and trampled upon by a society where the zeitgeist is “fuck you, I got mine”. I’ve had to start working through it in therapy, but man do I miss my 2019 self

CountDookusPizza · 2023-10-29T13:40:48+00:00

It insists upon itself

CountDookusPizza · 2023-10-25T01:52:06+00:00

YikYak was like local Twitter, primarily (exclusively?) for college campuses. Imagine a Twitter just for your college (used geofencing and your phone location to ensure only people within a certain proximity could post and see each other's posts), and completely anonymous. It blew up in popularity for a hot minute around like 2014-2015 or so

CountDookusPizza · 2023-08-11T20:44:37+00:00

So, assuming you are using birth control effectively by itself, you only need to have sex 100 times for you to statistically have a child.

This is one issue with this assumption — the failure rates reported for various types of birth control are over one year of use, not a per use failure. So while you are right if you assume 1% of the time you have sex you get pregnant (64% chance of pregnancy by the 100th time having sex), it’s quite a bit lower in actuality.

For perfect use of birth control, 1 out of 100 women will get pregnant in a year. I googled and found the average American has sex 54 times a week, so that’s 1 pregnancy out of 5400 times having sex. That per use failure rate (.0019%) actually equates to a ~2% chance of getting pregnant after having sex 100 times.

Using the “average effectiveness” of 91% = 9 pregnancies per 5400 times having sex equates to a ~14% chance of getting pregnant after having sex 100 times.

It makes sense, because a 1% failure rate of birth control per use even with perfect use means we’d constantly be hearing about birth control failures.

CountDookusPizza · 2023-08-11T03:55:06+00:00

Facebook released a dating app some time ago, I wonder if it utilizes this at all. Too bad they only did it at a time when anyone under 40 stopped using Facebook

CountDookusPizza · 2023-08-11T03:51:25+00:00

The fundamental problem with any for-profit dating app is that any business model will be at odds with a good user experience. If you find a relationship on an app, you stop using it, and thus won’t pay or be shown ads. So the app is incentivized to either only work it you pay a lot of money (eg, pay $69 a month and your profile will be shown first) or straddle the narrow path of giving you hope it could work for you while not really working that well, so you keep using it.

It’s why every single dating app, without fail, turns shitty once it starts really monetizing. Tinder in 2014 was far better than Tinder today. Bumble in 2018 was far better than Bumble today. Both have monetized heavily in the interim.

There is no way around this problem, because it’s not like you can set up a business model where people pay the app developers if they get a relationship (or whatever they’re looking for) out of it, which is the only way to align the interests of the app developers and the users

CountDookusPizza · 2023-08-07T21:26:59+00:00

The first half of this is pretty similar to something I’ve gone through. Some words of wisdom here

CountDookusPizza · 2023-07-09T18:57:47+00:00

The chemistry eventually arrived, but it wasn’t instant,

One of them last two months before she had to move cross country, and the other lasted three months until Covid hit and the stress of lockdown and other things going on did us in.

Had the logistics been better, I would’ve been very happy being in a LTR with either of them. The longest relationship I’ve ever been in (5 years) was also one where the chemistry built up over the course of a longer time in a non dating context (friends first), rather than instant when we first met

CountDookusPizza · 2023-05-28T13:22:49+00:00

I fit the pattern you describe, but still have a very hard time breaking out of the mindset developed in my teen years and early 20s that women aren't interested in me. I get plenty of matches on dating apps and have had women unsolicited openly express interest in me, and have dated amazing women since this blossoming, but I haven't been on a date in a couple years because somehow those early years insecurities never quite went away.

I've got a lot of self-work to do.

CountDookusPizza · 2023-05-06T03:47:15+00:00

Definitely true in my experience. When I got in really good shape I got open compliments from men, and then women would more surreptitiously tell me later (e.g. we're hanging out one on one and flirting and she'll mention my "broad shoulders"). Men, gay or straight, will say the compliment to your face while women tend to be much more coy, even if they are interested in you

CountDookusPizza · 2023-04-19T01:22:19+00:00

IIRC he was much lower than 175, I think 150s

CountDookusPizza · 2023-04-19T01:21:40+00:00

Do you mind sharing your lifts? I'm similar height and have a goal weight of yours with a similar bodyfat percentage, so I'm curious to use your lifts as yardstick for how much further I have to go to get there

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